Image ID: a black and orange image of Sisyphus pushing up a boulder. The boulder is labeled "the fucking menstrual cycle".
A few days after my period ends I just blissfully forget about it until one day I wake up and notice my crotch looks like someone was murdered there. Super duper fun.
Birth control has a WIDE range of symptoms. All birth control affects people differently (mostly due to a failure of the companies that produce the medications. Was primarily tested on white men originally... as most medications have been). Not sure that it can be definitively stated that it was entirely the medications fault, but apologies anyway.
what do you mean female birth control was tested on men? as much as people can be idiots that's like testing hair removal on patrick stewart
Historically, women have been seen (medically) as just smaller men. The tests I'm talking about were to determine side-effects, not effectiveness of the medication. So while hair removal is for people with hair, you can still test on Patrick Stewart to see if there's going to be chemical burns. But because it's medication, and was mostly tested on white men, BIWOC were left mostly untested and are more likely to experience complications and different side-effects.
Scientists just started this year (or last year I forget) using actual blood to test period products. They used colored water before. Our medical system has systematically left women to figure shit out on their own.